re: #3 Shiplord Kirel

Priebus conveniently overlooks a harsh reality: If Romney hadn’t made comments like these, he would never have gotten within spitting distance of the nomination. As it was, Romney was barely acceptable to the crazed GOP base; and not even that in many cases. Indeed, many held their noses and voted for the “RINO” as the only alternative to the hated “Kenyan usurper.”

IIRC, one thing that weakened Perry as a candidate aside from being a blatant moron was that Romney kneecapped him on immigration. Romney wasn’t a particularly right wing governor on the subject but he saw that Perry wasn’t either and he and his staff used that to weaken Perry. I just love Reince’s revisionism here though especially a few days after we have a GOP elected official telling a young girl that her father deserves to be deported to the cheers of a GOP crowd. This is the party that Reince agreed to be national chairman of and he’s either delusional or full of shit about the bigots that inhabit his party but then again he’s one of them himself.